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Author DeStefano, Susan.

Title Chico Mendes : fight for the forest / Susan DeStefano ; illustrated by Larry Raymond.

Publication Info. Frederick, Md. : Twenty-First Century Books, [1992]
©1992

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 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J B MENDES    Check Shelf
Description 76 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series Earth keepers
Earth keepers.
Note Includes index.
Contents Signs of struggle -- Amazon rain forest -- History of the tappers -- Life of a rubber tapper -- Devastation begins -- United to save the forest -- Struggles continues.
Summary Relates the story of the rubber tapper who was murdered because of his protest movement to stop the destruction of the Amazon rain forest.
Subject Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988 -- Juvenile literature.
Mendes, Chico, 1944-1988.
Conservationists -- Brazil -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rubber tappers -- Brazil -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rain forest conservation -- Brazil -- Juvenile literature.
Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile literature.
Deforestation -- Brazil -- Juvenile literature.
Deforestation -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile literature.
Conservationists.
Rain forest conservation -- Amazon River Region.
Added Author Raymond, Larry, illustrator.
ISBN 094147741X
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